Imprison

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  • transitive verb. To put in or as if in prison; confine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put into a prison; confine in a prison or jail; detain in custody.
  • To confine, limit, or restrain in any way or by any means.
  • Synonyms To incarcerate, immure.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
  • transitive verb. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To put in or as if in prison; confine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. confine as if in a prison
  • verb. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  • Word Usage
    "I don't know if yesterday's Supreme Court ruling is really going to lead to the apocalypse predicted by so many, or if the corporate influence on American politics is already at its absolute maximum and this is merely going to alter the number of tools in the fat cats 'political influence toolkit … But I find myself having the same naive reaction to the notion of "corporate personhood" that I've always had when it's come up: If corporations are persons in the eyes of the law, why has no one pursued the argument that we can do to corporations what we routinely do to persons, namely imprison and execute them?"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    deliver  free  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    confine  detain  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    arisen  prison  risen  
    Synonym
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    verb-form